amazing story!
you can really see jehovah's hand in all the activities below... .
10/05/09 morning worship david splane of the governing body conducted.. .
My firm conducts business in several African locations. We are successful, not doe to "holy spirit", but rather we know that, there is a "way" to get things done over there.
Idiots could have had it years ago! If they were educated and not waiting for some invisible, nonexistent force, to make the call.
a few years ago at the ca, there were experiences about what people had given up to serve jehovah.. (sidebar - in every instance where i personally knew those on the platform, the experiences were lies or at best half truths embroidered with lies.).
anyway - the interviewer was constantly saying " as a <insert profession> you could have earned <insert salary>".
what annoyed me was that somebody who gave up a full time job cleaning toilets for jehovah, and took a part time job cleaning toilets was not even invited to participate.. hb.
Blondie,
I agree that I could always go back. My problem is time, I have dedicated myself to my career. It is very lucrative and extra schooling would interfere with my professional success. I don't need it now, it just would have been the easier route to go.
But I also ask myself, If I did go to college, would I have been as driven as I am now.
The bigger sacrifice I made was geting married at 23. Don't get wrong, I love my wife, I just didn't fall in love with her. At 23 I married the hottest sister I could find. I can't say I regret it, but I wonder who I would have married if I both matured and didn't marry quickly because those were the JW rules.
Now that I am ou,t the only common ground is our kids.
did you get in trouble for it?
i am not talking about apostasy..
Yes. I did not get in trouble.
I AM talking about apostasy.
I have said it many times before, it's great to have a very compelling reason for them not to DF you.
still in, married.
but i'm coming out really soon.
you get one chance on this earth and i ain't about to waste it.
What is,
To be fair, I thought the same thing as psychotic parrot. Not that it is relevant, just objective.
still in, married.
but i'm coming out really soon.
you get one chance on this earth and i ain't about to waste it.
It's worth the risk.
My wife didn't go all that crazy. It was obvious to her I was not into it.
It also wasn't all that smooth. Almost a year later and we are good.
All the best.
a few years ago at the ca, there were experiences about what people had given up to serve jehovah.. (sidebar - in every instance where i personally knew those on the platform, the experiences were lies or at best half truths embroidered with lies.).
anyway - the interviewer was constantly saying " as a <insert profession> you could have earned <insert salary>".
what annoyed me was that somebody who gave up a full time job cleaning toilets for jehovah, and took a part time job cleaning toilets was not even invited to participate.. hb.
Did not go to college.
Still make a phenomenal living.
But wish the resume' was had a college degree.
i've been a lurker in this site for some time.
i am not a jehovah's witness, but was here because i wanted to know more about the organization, since i am in love with a jw woman.
she recently rejected me, on the grounds that "she would not risk her relationship with jehovah for someone who would die in (snap fingers)".
Convert.
Marry Her.
Call BS on the religion.
And suffer like the rest of the Guy's here with "believing mate's.
i've heard a little about this business, but i'm curious as to what you all think about it.
jw and exjw women - do you/did you believe it and abide by it?
jw and exjw men - do you still believe it?
There is a reason it's calle "HEADship".
Because it is the only way those freakin' JW men get to use thier "head" with their sexually disfunctional wives.
not sure if this was caught on in your cong or not, but now our service overseers text everyone in their group for their field service time.. now i understand that texting and email are good tools, i use them everyday.
but how impersonal can you be.
espicially when it comes to "life saving work".
"So do all jws have cellphones with text capabilities?"
Only the "materialistic" ones.
in my 4 years of fading i only had a couple of calls and visits.
does that make me lucky?
i am now being hassled to "chat" to an elder via my mobile.. .
I quit cold turkey in January.
I have only had one visit from 2 Elders ( had a very apostate conversation without saying anything that would implicate myself). No phone calls.
My wife goes to every meeting with our kids. I live less than 1/4 mile from the KH.
Guess some people are just lucky!
